Uncle Vanya

Dec 13, 1957

1h 38m

★ 6.0

Overview

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

Franchot Tone

Serebriakoff

Clarence Derwent

Elena Andreevna

Dolores Dorn

Voinitskaya

Shirley Gale

Telegin

Gerald Hiken

Sofia

Peggy McCay

Marina

Mary Perry

A Workman

Sanford Seeger

Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya)

George Voskovec

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